Post-Game Notes
1/11/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 11, 2014
Recap |
Box Score |
Quotes |
Photo Gallery 
POST-GAME NOTES
Wake Forest at Pitt • Petersen Events Center • January 11, 2014
Pitt 80, Wake Forest 65
•Pitt improved to 15-1 on the season and 3-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with an 80-65 win over Wake Forest. The victory marked the first time the Panthers have won their first three conference games of the season since topping Connecticut, Providence and Marquette to open Big East play in 2010-11. Pitt went 7-0 in 2010-11 before its first league loss.
•Pitt improved to 11-0 at the Petersen Events Center this season, the fourth-best undefeated mark in program history. Additionally, the Panthers have won 13 consecutive games at the Petersen Events Center, which ties for Pitt’s ninth-longest home-court winning streak in program history.
•The Panthers have registered 74-plus points in three-straight ACC games. The last time Pitt scored 74 or more points in three consecutive conference games was on Jan. 15-22, 2011 vs. Seton Hall (74-53), Syracuse (74-66) and DePaul (80-50).
•Pitt led wire-to-wire for the sixth time this season. It marked the first time the Panthers led from opening tip to closing horn since Cal-Poly on Dec. 21.
•The announced attendance for today’s game was 12,515, the 19th all-time largest on-campus crowd in school history.
•Jamie Dixon now owns a 14-0 record vs. previous ACC teams and a 30-10 overall record vs. current ACC teams (including Syracuse and Notre Dame). The meeting with Wake Forest today was the first between the programs.
•The Panthers currently own a 191-22 record at the Petersen Events Center, winning 97 of their last 109 home games and 40 of their last 50 home conference matchups.
•Senior Lamar Patterson led the Panthers with 27 points on a 10-for-17 (58.8 percent) shooting effort, his sixth 20-plus point showing of the season and third in his last five games. Patterson has shot at least 40.0 percent in seven-straight games and has led the team in points in five consecutive games and in six of the Panthers’ last seven. Patterson posted six assists, one off his career-high. He has had six or more assists in six games this season.
•The Panthers shot 41.7 percent from beyond the arc (5-of-12). Pitt has posted success rates above 40.0 percent from 3-point range in eight games this season. Lamar Patterson had four of Pitt’s five 3-pointers versus Wake and has connected on 15 of the team’s 30 made triples over the past seven games.
•Senior Talib Zanna recorded his fifth double-double of the season and 11th of his career with a 16-point, 12-rebound performance this afternoon. Zanna averaged 12.7 points and 9.0 rebounds in the three games leading up to today’s game against the Demon Deacons. Zanna has also led the Panthers in rebounding in five straight contests and nine overall this season.
• Durand Johnson totaled 11 points with eight coming from the charity stripe. Johnson’s 8-for-9 shooting at the free-throw line marked career-bests in free-throw attempts and free-throws made for the redshirt sophomore.
• Pitt tied its season-high in blocks this afternoon with six. Zanna paved the way for the Panthers defensively, tying a career-high with four blocks.
•The Panthers hit the road for their next two games, traveling to Georgia Tech on Tuesday and Syracuse on Saturday. It marks Pitt’s first two-game road swing this season.